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Space Mission Eddington Seeks Out Quaking Stars And Earthlike Planets
Members of the media are invited to attend the meeting. No pre-registration is required, but it would be helpful if advance notice of attendance is given to the RAS press officer, Peter Bond, or to one of the organisers. There may be opportunities for interviews during the morning registration... view more (2002-01-08)

Messenger peeks at Earth
NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft - less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system - successfully tested its main camera by snapping distant approach shots of Earth and the Moon.   view more (2005-05-31)

ESA's SMART-1 satellite ready for lift-off
Follow the SMART-1 launch from an ESA or Arianespace establishment. During the night of Saturday 27/Sunday 28 September, ESA's SMART-1 satellite will be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport at Kourou at 20:02 hrs local time (01:02 hrs Central European Summer Time, 23:02 hrs... view more (2003-09-24)

Pluto-Bound New Horizons Spacecraft Gets a Boost from Jupiter
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Jupiter early this morning, using the massive planet's gravity to pick up speed on its 3-billion mile voyage to Pluto and the unexplored Kuiper Belt region beyond.   view more (2007-03-01)

Mars Express successfully powers through eclipse season
The Mars Express spacecraft has emerged from an unusually demanding eclipse season introducing a special, ultra-low-power mode nicknamed 'Sumo'-an innovative configuration aimed at saving the power necessary to ensure spacecraft survival.   view more (2006-09-27)

Dealing with threatening space rocks
Every now and then a space rock hits the world's media - sometimes almost literally. Threatening asteroids that zoom past the Earth, fireballs in the sky seen by hundreds of people and mysterious craters which may have been caused by impacting meteorites; all make ESA's activities in this field,... view more (2007-09-21)

NASA diagnoses Tropical Storm Gert's growth spurt
Scientists want to know how a tropical cyclone develops from a weak tropical depression into a tropical storm. To answer that question, NASA and other scientists flew over and through storms in 2005 and obtained and combined data that let them see the storm in four dimensions.   view more (2006-12-12)

CRISM Has Key Role in Selecting Next Mars Rover Landing Site
Scientists scouting potential landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover mission are using new data from a powerful mineral-mapping camera to narrow the site selection.   view more (2007-10-22)

Europe's Mercury mission swings into action
The European Space Agency (ESA) signalled the start of a busy period for the planet Mercury, when it signed the contract for industrial development to start for the BepiColombo mission today (18th January 2008) at Astrium in Friedrichshafen, Germany. UK scientists and industry have key roles in... view more (2008-01-21)

Media Information Note - Cassini-Huygens prepares for closest approach to Titan
UK scientists and industrialists involved in the NASA, ESA, ASI Cassini-Huygens space mission are eagerly awaiting the data to be received when the spacecraft makes its closest fly-by of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on 26th October.   view more (2004-10-21)

U-M scientist says Mars winds could pose challenges-but manageable ones-for NASA's Phoenix lander team
Martian winds probably won't cause serious problems for NASA's upcoming Phoenix Mars Lander mission but could complicate efforts to collect soil and ice at the landing site, according to University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Nilton Renno.   view more (2007-07-30)

Press invitation: Solar Sailing Ships Set To Soar
A Discussion Meeting on "Solar Sail Mission Applications" will be held on the morning of FRIDAY 10th MAY 2002 in the Lecture Theatre of the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, LONDON. The meeting will bring together world-renowned experts on this revolutionary new form of... view more (2002-05-02)

Cassini's doubleheader flybys score home run
Cassini performed back-to-back flybys of Saturn moons Tethys and Hyperion last weekend, coming closer than ever before to each of them.   view more (2005-10-03)

Royal interest in University space project
During their visit to Leicester on 1 August 2002 Her Majesty the Queen and HRH Prince Philip will be shown the British Beagle 2 space mission to Mars which will be on display in the Planets Gallery of the National Space Centre. Beagle 2 is a unique British-led space probe, designed to search for... view more (2002-07-26)

Impact landing ends SMART-1 mission to the Moon
ESA PR 31-2006. Early this morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the 'Lake of Excellence' region.   view more (2006-09-05)

UK Goes to the Planets: Media events at the BA Festival of Science, University of Exeter
In support of the sessions we are holding at this year's BA Festival of Science in Exeter please find below details of the linked media events.   view more (2004-09-06)

Record boost for ATV to raise ISS orbit
For the second time since April, ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used to raise the orbit of the International Space Station yesterday.   view more (2008-06-23)

Mission to Mars via Antarctica
As part of the Aurora Exploration Programme, ESA is considering participating in a human mission to Mars by the year 2030.   view more (2005-12-21)

U of M to help NASA 'follow the sun' — in stereo
Like geologists poring over seismograph records to identify the telltale signature of an imminent earthquake, University of Minnesota researchers are poised to probe the sun for a tipoff that a huge eruption of its corona is brewing.   view more (2006-10-19)

Mars Express sees its first water - scientific results
ESA PR 06-2004. Mars Express, ESA's first mission to Mars, will reach its final orbit on 28 January. It has already been producing stunning results since its first instrument was switched on, on 5 January. The significance of the first data was emphasised by the scientists at a European press... view more (2004-01-23)

Undergraduate paves way for NASA Mars mission
Earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are paving the way for a smooth landing on Mars for the Phoenix Mission scheduled to launch in August this year by making sure the set-down literally is not a rocky one.   view more (2007-04-17)

CryoSat takes significant step towards final completion
CryoSat, the first Earth Explorer mission within ESA's Living Planet Programme, is now entering the final phase of assembly prior to its scheduled launch next year. CryoSat is designed to measure changes in the Earth's terrestrial and marine ice fields and aims to provide conclusive evidence as... view more (2003-08-04)

Researchers Describe Discovery of Pluto's New Moons
In the Feb. 23 issue of the journal Nature, a team led by Dr. Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., describes its discovery of two new moons around Pluto - a finding that made the ninth planet the first Kuiper Belt object known to have multiple... view more (2006-02-23)

More of Titan's secrets to be unveiled on 21 January
One week after the successful completion of Huygens' mission to the atmosphere and surface of Titan, the largest and most mysterious moon of Saturn, the European Space Agency is bringing together some of the probe's scientists to present and discuss the first results obtained from the data... view more (2005-01-18)

Floating pile of rubble a pristine record of solar system's history
A small, near-Earth asteroid named Itokawa is just a pile of floating rubble, probably created from the breakup of an ancient planet, according to a University of Michigan researcher was part of the Japanese space mission Hayabusa.   view more (2006-06-02)
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